Alycia Baumgardner and Mikaela Mayer have agreed phrases on a super-featherweight unification bout later this 12 months.
Mayer, 31, is the WBO, IBF and Ring journal champion whereas Baumgardner, 28, holds the WBC and IBO titles.
Unbeaten Mayer’s promoters Top Rank will oversee the occasion, which is more likely to happen in America.
“Mikaela Mayer’s prodigious expertise is just matched by her super ambition,” stated Top Rank’s Bob Arum.
“She desires the most important fights, and Alycia Baumgardner is a worthy champion.
“This is a big occasion and some of the anticipated match-ups in girls’s boxing.”
The announcement follows months of backwards and forwards between Mayer and Baumgardner on social media.
Mayer is undefeated in 17 skilled fights whereas Baumgardner, who has just one defeat, pulled off one of many upsets of 2021 when she knocked out Britain’s Terri Harper in Sheffield final November to develop into WBC champion.
The fight joins a rising listing of thrilling girls’s bouts projected to happen this 12 months, together with an undisputed middleweight assembly between Savannah Marshall and Claressa Shields in addition to the extremely anticipated rematch between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano.
